Mark's Epic Blog of Randomness

 By Mark Rodriguez After the events dealing with the simulated reality of The Arcadium, Peter, Miles and the rest of their friends and associated at the Coffee Bean have been meeting up for therapy. One of them, Juliet Marcos was in love with someone she admired from afar who didn't even know she existed. When the woman, Anna Romney, just so happened to visit the Coffee Bean, Juliet introduced herself to her. When Anna  didn't recognize Juliet.... Juliet suddenly turned into vapor... and then into water! Elsewhere, the female Electro was recently defeated by Spider-Man and Silk. Upon seeing this televised, the original Electro wants to teach her a lesson for 'cheapening his brand'. What will happen now?   "Strange Love Part 2 Gone Girl" opens with both Spider-Men swinging towards the Coffee Bean. Miles asks Peter if he has any idea on what to do about this, and Peter has none. Peter says it will be strange to walk into the cafe in full costume and Miles said ...

 By Mark Rodriguez Peter and Miles have decided to meet up once a week at The Coffee Bean to discuss their superhero lives and unwind. When the regulars started going missing, they uncovered a plot devised by Mentallo and Arcade, which was funded by Hammerhead, to use people's fantasies and dreams against them. After the Arcadium gained sentience and started to attack the heroes, all while the Jackal was leading an army of Vermin clones underground. Having defeated both threats (and the comic actually continuing instead of it being a mini-series), Peter and Miles now face a brand new adventure. Let's see what happens now.   "Strange Love Part 1 Triage" opens with Cedric Harrison, Shelly Conklin, Kenny Kong, Billy Shakes, Adam Blackveil, Juliet Marcos and of course, Peter Parker and Miles Morales going over recent events. Peter tells Miles that he got this and he starts to explain. We flashback to the arrest of Hammerhead and the Jackal, as both Spider-Men and Detecti...

 By Mark Rodriguez The Turtles enter a fighting tournament in Atlanta City where they meet the Street Fighters. Bison and Baxter are behind the tournament and have been kidnapping fighters behind-the-scenes, which include Raphael and Chun Li, to power up the Psycho Bomb. Raphael buys Chun Li some time so she can escape as the rest of the crew starts moving in on the bad guys. We find out that Shredder was one of Bison's projects and he just broke free!!   The issue opens with Shredder attacking all of the Shadaloo soldiers, and even their weapons aren't stopping him. Baxter says they aren't ready to defeat the Shredder now. He says they should retreat, formulate a plan and return to take Shredder down, but the nurse informs him that Bison walked out 20 seconds ago. Bison sees that his soldiers have captured Raphael. One of his troops ask if they're evacuating due to the Shredder. Bison says he is of no concern since his Psycho Power was already harvested. He says once h...

By Mark Rodriguez The Turtles go to Atlantic City to enter the Street Fighter tournament. Bison and Baxter are working behind the scenes and Bison is interested in Raphael. After several matches, a brawl breaks out between the Turtles and the Street Fighters. Bison takes advantage of this and sends his soldiers to attack everybody. After the fighting ends, the crew realize that Chun Li and Raphael are missing. The issue opens with Raphael and Chun Li being captured by Shadaloo Soldiers and brought to Bison and Baxter. Raphael is surprised to see Baxter involved and says that kidnapping and attacking civilians as well as rigging a fight he should have won (oh, get over it Raph) is low even for him. Chun Li sees Bison and says that's actually not low enough for him at all.    Baxter asks Bison why he brought them there. He tells Bison he specifically wanted him to leave the Turtles alone so they don't risk them ruining their plans. Bison says that was what Baxter wanted, and he ...

 By Mark Rodriguez This one came as part of one of Third Eye Comics' random grab bags. Since annuals are usually one-shots, I can get the complete story and don't have to worry about being caught in the middle of some 20 part story. Plus a story about Wolverine and Domino teaming up to fight Sentinels sounds fun.   "Jump Start" opens in Beast's lab in The Pionte, Krakoa, as he talks to Sage asking if 'they' and en route. Sage says there's 15 minutes left for their arrival and they have to wait until they signal them from Erta Ale. Beast tells her to call him as soon as they do. She asks if he's sure about this since this plans sounds very convoluted for Orchis. Beast says he trusts her to do her job so she should trust him to do is. After their video call ends, Sage calls someone else, as she was told to do if Beast ever started acting strange. Sage says it might be time for 'her' to step in. In this case she is referring to Emma Frost. Em...

 By Mark Rodriguez All the vampires in the Marvel Universes decided to team up as they forced all Dark Force users to cover up the sun, plunging the world in eternal darkness. As the Avengers fight with a group of powerful vampires called the Bloodcoven, Thor, Black Panther and Scarlet Witch are gravely injured. Elsewhere it's revealed that Blade is the one behind this as he betrays and fatally injures Doctor Strange!!! What will happen now?   The story opens in the Impossible City as Thor is being restrained (with a spike impaled in his skull) and Scarlet Witch is suffering a mental attack. Blade oversees this and says they are safe in the Impossible City, a place for monsters to call home. He asks the Black Panther how he feels, as we see that he's been turned into a vampire. Blade approaches him, telling him to try to fight him, but T'Challa can only kneel with loyalty. Blade sends T'Challa and the Bloodcoven out to their next mission. Blade says his palace is secure...